Cyber - Project - The Human Screenome Project
About The Human Screenome Project
The Stanford Human Screenome Project is a technology platform, analysis process and data repository that facilitates precise mapping of media use via detailed moment-by-moment capture and machine analysis of all the actual content, actions and sequences that appear on personal screens – defining what we call the screenome.
Researchers
Byron Reeves
Paul C. Edwards Professor of Communication
Byron Reeves received a B.F.A. in graphic design from Southern Methodist University and his M.A. and a Ph.D. in communication from Michigan State University.
Prior to joining Stanford in 1985, he taught at the University of Wisconsin where he was director of graduate studies and associate chair of the Mass Communication Research Center.
He teaches courses in mass communication theory and research, with particular emphasis on psychological processing of interactive media. His research includes message processing, social cognition, and social and emotion responses to media, and has been published in books of collected studies as well as such journals as Human Communication Research, Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Broadcasting, and Journalism Quarterly. He is co-author of The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places (Cambridge University Press).
Nilam Ram
Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, and Psychology The Pennsylvania State University
Nilam Ram specializes in longitudinal research methodology and life-span development – particularly in how within-person/intraindividual change and variability study designs can contribute to our understanding of human behavior. Ram's goals are to develop and apply novel longitudinal methods that address fundamental questions pertaining to human development. He make use of and extends a variety of techniques for analyzing change, with primary focus on multivariate time-series and growth curve modeling. Substantively, he applies these methods to examine changes in human behavior at multiple levels – biological, behavioral, cultural – and across multiple time scales – second-to-second, day-to-day, decade-to-decade. A key element of his research program is the explicit interplay between developmental theory, method, and data.
Thomas Robinson
Irving Schulman MD, Endowed Professor in Child Health, Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics), of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research Center) and, by courtesy, of Health Research & Policy (Epidemiology), Stanford University
Thomas Robinson designs solutions to improve health and well-being of children, families, and the planet. Dr. Robinson originated the solution-oriented research paradigm and directs the Stanford Solutions Science Lab. He is known for his pioneering obesity prevention and treatment research, including the concept of stealth interventions. His research applies social cognitive models of behavior change to behavioral, social, environmental and policy interventions for children and families in real world settings, making the results relevant for informing clinical and public health practice and policy. His research is largely experimental, conducting rigorous school-, family- and community-based randomized controlled trials. He studies obesity and disordered eating, nutrition, physical activity/inactivity and sedentary behavior, the effects of television and other screen time, adolescent smoking, aggressive behavior, consumerism, and behaviors to promote environmental sustainability.